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‘The report also said the U. S. Copyright Office 'should set new standards for the appropriate formats for the digital materials,' including born-digital information.’

‘The bulk of activity covered by the survey has been the digitisation of existing collections rather than in tackling the issues raised by born-digital material.’

‘Keeping a work of art that is "born digital" is not just a matter of storing it safely and away from heat and light: it must be migrated to a new platform when the software to run it becomes obsolete or unsupported.’

‘Increasingly libraries are taking responsibility for born-digital collections (such as geo-spatial or numeric data sets, faculty or class Web sites) and developing tools for their management and use.’

‘The Internet Archive will act as the agent of the Library of Congress in collecting, storing and serving relevant US "born digital" information from the Web.’

‘There was a really interesting article in the NYT about the preservation of the "born-digital" files of writers, including Rushdie and Updike (the latter sent a number of floppy disks to Harvard right before he died).’

‘This born digital realm includes open access materials on the World Wide Web.’

‘Such materials are colloquially described as "born digital."’

‘The fact that these records are now born digital is going to change the nature of our intellectual record going forward.’

‘The born-digital object needs to be captured at creation time otherwise it is soon lost.’

‘Whether born digital or not, the materials themselves are substantial reports and tend to have gone through the normal vetting process that is involved in print publication as opposed to creation on the Web.’

‘Access information is important to modern and contemporary historians, and born digital records have challenges of their own which we are starting to address.’

‘An increasing percentage of material was born digital, as well as ephemeral, for example, schedules of planning meetings of different groups within the organization.’

‘However, if I were to cite only non-Web versions of materials, I would falsely represent my research method, and would have to ignore born digital materials.’